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Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood. Hello, and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood.

I am your host, Danny Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Allo Johnston, a Latino trans man, and licensed marriage and family therapist.

He's the author of the recently published book, Am I Trans Enough, and co-host of the Wondermind podcast, Baggage Shop.

Allo, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me. The answer for me to your question is yes. So I'm glad we have gotten that one out of the way.

I am trans enough. No spoilers. And I say in the introduction, the answer is yes. So you don't really

have to get that far at the book even. So I'm glad we all. It's not necessarily what the end of the 200 pages will get you. Yeah. Glad to hear you don't just open with sounds like a skill issue. Yep. Well, with that out of the way, I am really looking forward to advising some people, some of whom are trans. I'd like to say, oh, I specially prepared these for us, but I just get a lot of questions from

trans people.

So sometimes that's also just, it is what it is.

But we're going to start, I think, with like the easiest question.

And we're going up in difficulty today.

So we're going to start easy and end with something slightly more complex, which I think is

a pretty good way to progress. So I'll take our first letter. Assuming you're doing well. I don't know. I dispensed with the pleasantries. Are you doing well? Are you feeling excited? Do you think that you know how to tell these people how to live? I mean, I certainly agree that they get more complex as we go. I was like, oh, yeah, this seems fine. And then as I read them, I was like,

okay, I understand why you can be telling us. Yeah, yeah, this does sound difficult. Good luck to you.

That's often a place where I end up with letters, so please don't feel alone in that. So we'll

start easy and see where we go. The subject of our first letter is reinventing the wheel.

This is a low-stakes little mood question.

I met my friend, George, about a half a year ago at a weekly queer event, and I've

had such a good time getting to know them.

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